Minnesota officer meant to fire Taser, not handgun, in deadly Daunte Wright shooting, police chief says
A police chief in Brooklyn Center outside of Minneapolis released the body camera footage Monday showing the officer-involving shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, categorizing the event as an “accidental discharge.”
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said he believed the so far unidentified officer intended to reach for a Taser but mistakenly grabbed her service weapon and deployed a single bullet. Both the chief and Mayor Mike Elliott declined to release the officer’s name at this time but said the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension should be releasing information about all involved parties soon.
At least 500 Minnesota National Guard personnel have been activated across the Twin Cities on Monday in support of Operation Safety Net during the trial for Derek Chauvin – a number that’s expected to increase following Sunday’s fatal police shooting in Brooklyn Center.
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BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Crowds of mourners and protesters gathered in a Minnesota city where the family of a 20-year-old man say he was shot by police before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing several blocks away. The family of Daunte Wright said he was later pronounced dead.
The death sparked protests in Brooklyn Center into the early hours of Monday morning as Minneapolis was already on edge and midway through the trial of the first of four police officers in George Floyd’s death. Brooklyn Center is a city of about 30,000 people located on the northwest border of Minneapolis.
John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, said at a middle-of-the-night news conference that marchers had descended upon the Brooklyn Center police department building after the Sunday afternoon shooting. Rocks and other objects were thrown at officers but the protesters had largely dispersed as of 1:15 a.m. Monday, he said.
Harrington added that about 20 businesses had been broken into at the city’s Shingle Creek shopping center. He said law enforcement agencies were coordinating to tame the unrest, and the National Guard was activated.
A group of women sing and dance outside of stores that were looted by #BLM rioters in Brooklyn Center, Minn. #DuanteWright #Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/bcUKGuXyr0
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
A gas station convenience store was looted clean by #BLM rioters overnight in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Rioters & protesters are responding violently to the police killing of a wanted criminal suspect who tried fleeing by vehicle. #DuanteWright pic.twitter.com/ctRa6Y5bFl
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott announced a curfew in the city until 6 a.m. Monday. In a tweet he said, “We want to make sure everyone is safe. Please be safe and please go home.”
Brooklyn Center police said in a statement that officers had stopped an individual shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday. After determining the driver had an outstanding warrant, police tried to arrest the driver. The driver reentered the vehicle and drove away. An officer fired at the vehicle, striking the driver. Police said the vehicle traveled several blocks before striking another vehicle.
Police did not identify the driver who was shot but said the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the person’s name following a preliminary autopsy and family notification. A female passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the crash.
A police officer was also transported to the hospital after sustaining injuries, according to EMS audio, the Star-Tribune reported.
Katie Wright, Daunte’s mother, tearfully pleaded for more information regarding the incident and for her son’s body to be moved from the street.
Here’s more from the mother: pic.twitter.com/L1rtYSiMUP
— Kim Hyatt (@kimvhyatt) April 11, 2021
The claim from #DuanteWright's mother & #BLM activists that he was killed by police over air fresheners is unsubstantiated. There was a warrant for his arrest. He resisted arrest & got back in the vehicle & tried to speed off. He nearly killed others during the failed escape. pic.twitter.com/nVyqPpJeyl
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 12, 2021
A woman who lives near the crash scene, Carolyn Hanson, said she saw law enforcement officers pull a man out of a vehicle and perform CPR. A passenger who got out of the car was also covered in blood, Hanson said.
Public mourners included Wright’s family and friends who gathered, wept and consoled each other alongside protesters who jumped atop police cars, confronted officers, carried “Black Lives Matter” flags, and walked peacefully in columns with their hands held up. On one street, written in multi-colored chalk: “Justice for Daunte Wright.”
By late Sunday, Brooklyn Center police had fired gas into the crowd of protesters who had gathered outside the police station. Flash bangs were also used to disperse protesters overnight.
“I am closely monitoring the situation in Brooklyn Center,” Gov. Tim Walz tweeted late Sunday. “Gwen and I are praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.”
Police said Brooklyn Center officers wear body-worn cameras and they also believe dash cameras were activated during the incident. The Brooklyn Center Police Department said it has asked the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate.
The trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer charged in George Floyd’s death, was slated to continue Monday. Harrington, the public safety commissioner, said more National Guard members would be deployed around the city and in Brooklyn Center.
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“After determining the driver had an outstanding warrant, police tried to arrest the driver. The driver reentered the vehicle and drove away”. Another fine upstanding citizen of the welfare system. An outstanding warrant on this low life and he disobeyed police orders. Now there is one less criminal in the world.
Here’s an idea,DON’T RUN away. How about listening and use common sense. The common denominator is the idiots take off. Good chance you obey a cops request, good chance you’ll still be alive. Now here’s another reason to RIOT, steal stuff, break widows, and cause damage to innocent people and property that doesn’t belong to you. This is a good time for BLM and Antifa to help pay for the losses to the families for the moneys lost from these outstanding law abiding citizens. Maybe they can also help pay for their funeral arrangements, instead of the head of BLM stealing money to buy houses for themselves.
Exactly! I draw your attention to the case of the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles some years ago…
Rodney King was accompanied by TWO individuals – BOTH of whom obeyed officers instructions, and were taken into custody WITHOUT incident!
Rodney King was the combative, belligerent one – who suffered the consequences!
Let’s ALSO not forget the LIES, like “Hands up, Don’t Shoot”!
Court Precedents are set that criminals parents receive 37 million dollars after riots , and unruly mobs loot, murder innocent citizens etc. If this nonsense continues for a decade or so it is decreed by Dem appointed Court Injustices that this precedent becomes tradition.
Students are indoctrinated in schools by educators, and textbooks that this wrong is right, thus normalizing this nonsense in the environment. Almost all businesses , Media etc. in all venues are pumping this rot into our homes as well, by Democrat and Rino Legislation. This problem needed to be addressed years ago too, by the people, before our Western World became a Government – Supreme Court Legislated Swamp. Legislated Atheist Secularism in Government, Law and Education leads to Anarchy.
IT mattered not to these rioters, if this guy was in the process of raping a 12 yr old.. IF IT WAS A WHITE COP shooting him, THEY WOULD RIOT..
PROVING ITS NOT about cops.. or racism. ITS ABOUT THEY want to be criminals with NO REIGNS on their crime.
What we know:
A Black person committed a criminal act;
There was a Warrant for his ARREST AND DETAINMENT;
He was stopped and an arrest was attempted.
He became violent and assaulted the police
He tried to escape.
Had he NOT COMMITTED the original crime, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!
So, let’s look to history for a solution:
COMMIT CRIMINAL ACTS – BAD STUFF HAPPENS
Obey the Laws and RESPECT the RIGHTS of Others – NOTHING BAD happens.
seems like a simple solution.
STOP TRAINING MINORITIES TO BELIEVE THEY ARE VICTIMS!
WE first hav to stop the politicians from PUSHING the mantra blacks are victims and thus shouldn’t be charged with crimes..
If white people organized, protested and rioted every time a black person shot or killed another black person, rioting in Minneapolis and other Democrat run cities would be as common as walking down the street. Time for blacks to clean their own houses before pointing fingers at people of other races for dirtying up the American inner cities that ran just fine when White people controlled the levels of power and punished even their own when they stepped beyond the boundiries of CIVIL behavior,
Exactly. As they showed on Outnumbered, another WHITE COP was killed in a traffic stop in new mexico.. YET NO news reports on it. NO RIOTS by whites.. MAYBE IF WE got as violent as blacks do, THINGS WOULD CHANGE.
reportedly his facebook page shows a true thug or no less than a wannabee-
with an outstanding warrant -and obviously a death wish–
At what point do WE the PEOPLE put a stop to these riots and Looting? A negro criminal gets shot and other negroes think Yea!, it is time to go steal stuff, I need a new TV or sneakers.
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~5,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 96% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
Never in human history has a culture discarded its belief system more quickly for atheist secularism than the US and Western Civilization did , by Government Legislation, and Supreme Court decree in the sixties.
Historic perspectives on morality and ethics gave way to a new value system based on changing social attitudes. The media moguls in all venues etc. normalized this invading every household. Legislated Atheist Secularism replaced The Lord’s Prayer in Schools, Government and Law. The Secular Atheist Worldview has thus become the predominant way of thinking. The resources available to unruly mob organizations BLM etc. are breaking new ground every day by Dem Legislation. This did not occur in a vacuum but before everyone’s eyes, as did the last election which was stolen by Dems and Media Moguls.
The schools indoctrinate our society by Government Legislation and Supreme Court Decree. If one looks at school curriculum one discovers that the majority of people who proselytise the new morality- worldview-religion the textbook writers are white. The people who elect rotten governments, which indoctrinate society beginning with kindergarteners are the culprits.
If my math is right, at 96%, that would be 24 out of 25
We the people unfortunately, seem to have been COWED INTO acquiescence to these riots. FOR IF WE defend ourselves, WE ARE THE ONES jailed. IF we try to stop them, WE ARE THE ones punished..
Goodness! SO MUCH “systemic racism” from totally blue districts totally under control for decades by democrats. Perhaps the liberals who dictate policy of minorities—yet distance themselves from their dependent class, should better understand that they changed cultural diversity into cultural perversity.
DAYS like this, i wonder, HOW MUCH better would the US have been, had Lincoln, after he freed the slaves, SENT THEM ALL BACK to Africa…?
gotta love how all the criminal backers always cry they want justice for this thug or that–
justice is there waiting for them –but they always run or try to fight against justice-
they deserve the street meted out justice since they snub their nose at real justice-
notice to young black thugs-that cop is your passport to justice-meet him halfway and
you will stay alive-think about your mama-a coffin ain’t any ones idea of justice-
THEY ONLY want THEIR form of justice.. Mob rule in otherwords.
Anti-White thugs attack White people that peacefully protest against the genocidal policy of mass third-world immigration and FORCED assimilation for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries. If anti-White ideas are so good, why do they require street violence to make sure nobody will object? It’s obvious that Antifa and BLM really only want White Genocide.
Well, until libs grow up and start dealing with this trash their cities will continue to go downhill so no sympathy from here.
HENC WHY keep wondering, WHY THE COPS Out there, have not retired en-mass, and LEFT THE CITY to defend itself!
NOT just the cops, but the natil guard too.. SO THE guvner can’t “CALL” them up (to do nothing other than stand around like statues)
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stop breaking the law!
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Love a happy ending to a story as this.Too bad more perps aren’t killed to save tax dollars on jails and trials. If they can’t learn to abide by the law then the law needs to end their reigns of terror
I’d love to be able to bring in a few dozen squads of Storm troopers (first order), and just LET THEM GO TO TOWN on these savages.. AND LEAVE the bodies where they fall.
Just another excuse for the rest of the BLM low lifes to loot and destroy property. In the meantime, a co-founder of BLM uses donations to buy millions of dollars of real estate mostly in predominantly white neighborhoods.
Looks like theft going on at both ends of this group.
” Black Lives Matter“ Yusra Khogali, leader of the “anti-racist” Black Lives Matter movement,
does not hide ……her hatred of white people….. in her comments on social media.
“Yusra Khogali, a Black Lives Matter leader, recently wrote that “white people are a genetic defect of blackness,” and that “whiteness is not humanness. In fact, white skin is sub-human.”
OF course she won’t hide her abject HATE OF WHITES.. BECAUSE ITS CONDONED and celebrated.
I’m surprised that any cop in a large Democrat run metropolitan area is still doing their job. It would have been so easy for these cops to let that guy go and why not? The citizens of that city and state don’t care. They’d rather hang a cop than take a criminal off the street.
In fact, I’m surprised there are still cops on the job around these big cities.
We have to protect ourselves. It won’t be long before cops stop putting their *** on the line to protect citizens who will not support the police.
I think we’re in for another long, hot summer in the cities or what’s left of them.
You saw that pinhead libtard Gov. Waltz and wife are mourning yet another poor victim of police violence. That moron thinks his insipid comment will stop all the riots and looting about to crank up again – HAHAHA. Wait until Chauvin gets a sentence anything less than hanging.
AND Note, CONGRESS and the white house, are silent on all of this. ALMOST LIKE THEY WANT these cities to stay in ruin.
There is no cure for Stupid…other than a bullet.
That is why we must limit one child only while on welfare. Or we must defund it. No exceptions, before the criminals get to 14 % or more.
AND once they’ve had that one kid (OR Two abortions) GET SNIPPED.. SO they can’t have more.
If you (or the media more importantly) were to ask any of the thugs who rioted, burned, looted, stole, destroyed private property, etc……… what the factual specifics were in the unfortunate shooting of Mr. Wright, they would not be able to tell you. The reason being that the facts have not been released nor come out at this point. Yet, in their own minds, the mere shooting of a fleeing suspect who was going to be re-arrested because of an outstanding warrant or warrants was enough for them to bring down their unwarranted wrath on the Community. People need to start realizing that Black Lives Matter is the equivalent of the KKK and that it needs to be reigned in. No more free passes because of the false narrative that it spews at every opportunity. Enough is enough !!!
They’d more likely say “WE DON’T CARE what the specifics are”.. THEN BASH YOu for daring to ask.
Here is insane irony. The communist leader of BLM Chicago is Patrisse Cullors. She promoted hundreds of BLM communist riots with a full compliment of arson, looting, vandalism, destruction of business, homes, churches, injury to thousands of police and Americans all by her THUG BLM minions. She also collected $90 $millions. By the way, this communist just bought a mansion for$1.5 million dollars. This kinda reminds me of how communist Chinese leaders live in luxory while their thugs destroy people’s lives.
its time for the police to put this down! enough already.
Once again, “Comply, Don’t Die”!
Oh, and once again BLM is there promoting their brand of Racism.
I hope the LEO’s spend as much time and resources arresting these rioters as they have on the January 6th Protest at The Capitol in DC!
Here we go again. It will be the cop’s fault, not the criminal’s. Something is seriously wrong with this country – Minnesota, get a clue! How long are we going to allow this kind of rioting and destruction to go on in the name of “justice”. Yes, some things are wrong and need to be fixed but this pendulum has swung waaaaay too far left!
This was a tragic shooting when the female officer drew her pistol instead of her taser and delivered one deadly round. She made a terrible mistake but not as bad as the dead guy for resisting arrest.
I have no experience with a taser so can some of you who do clear something up for me? How can a cop mistake her pistol for a taser? Wouldn’t they feel different and be kept in a different spot on your belt?
I’m sitting here listening to a bunch of Minnesota officials speak about this shooting and it is very clear that had the young criminal been a white man not a one of them would be out there ranting and tearing their clothes. Not one.
They are all promising to force the state legislature to take action against cops. So glad I don’t live in Minnesota.
They are kept on the left of the belt, while the gun is on the right (F You are right hand dominant), but in a STRUGGLE your mind can easily get which arm is which wrong..
There was a warrant for his arrest. He resisted arrest & got back in the vehicle & tried to speed off.
Another pillar of the community.
What do you think will happen when or if Chauvin is found, NOT Guilty?
OH, Don’t say, it can’t happen… Remember OJ?
Chauvin doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell of beating the rap – he will get paroled as a senior citizen or die in prison, not that I think it should work that way, but it will. The riots, looting and burning of cities will happen right on cue unless he is hanged immediately in front of the courthouse like a horse thief in an old cowboy movie.
YEa. I fear the fix is already in, to hang him..
How is rioting and looting any sort of an appropriate response to a thug with a warrant out for his arrest being shot as he tried to ellude the police?
ITS NOT. BUT since when to blacks care about what is appropriate?
CNN Lemon as usual spewing the illogical idiotic notion that POC should just be given a friendly wave & air kisses by police if they do not wish to obey lawful commands or be arrested.
I’m becoming convinced that many POC are just really dumb if they don’t comprehend they should just obey commands by police & peacefully accept their ticket or arrest & then voice any complaints of rudeness / mistreatment to proper authorities & media if they choose.
In every case I’ve seen the POC who have been injured / killed have resisted arrest & endangered police & public by doing so.
We cannot have a split justice system where POC are given a pass for criminal behavior.
It’s strange that we do not see police treating white criminals resisting arrest any different from POC criminals resisting arrest but white people do not run out to riot, loot & burn when white criminals are injured / killed by.police.
CNN talking heads saying Wright & guess all POC with misdemeanor warrants should just be allowed to flee from arrest even though all warrants by definition require cops to arrest so just more lie peddling by fake news.
IT seems to me, that they just CAN’T ever fit into a proper CIVIL society..